Lilith Summary

Lilith by George MacDonald takes the educated narrator, Mr. Vane, on several trips into a parallel world that co-exists with one in time and place, meeting people, observing strange phenomena, and learning from Adam, the first-created human, that God desires all to be saved through death.

Mr. Vane, recently graduated from Oxford, specializing in the natural sciences and given to questions of metaphysics, discovers that his library is haunted by a centuries-old librarian...

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George MacDonald Biographies (4)

George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, h...
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Although George MacDonald began his literary career as a poet and considered poetry to be the highest literary calling, he made his mark in Victorian literature as a novelist and fantasist. In his own...
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During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Qua...
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Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis ...
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